New York, US (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday reported that the exodus of Nigerians fleeing violence in the country’s north-eastern region continues, with an influx of 16,000 refugees into neighbouring Cameroon.Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Japan has donated US$1.7 million to the Congolese authorities and the officials of the World Food Programme (WFP) for the 33,500 refugees from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic (CAR) residing in the country (Congo), a government statement said here Wednesday.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The spread of violent attacks across the border from northern Nigeria into Niger is causing widespread displacement and hampering efforts to provide humanitarian assistance in the area, a spokesperson for the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is appealing for more funds to help address the recent exodus of refugees into Cameroon from Nigeria, saying that a risk in attacks on both sides of that border has made it increasingly risky for humanitarian agencies to operate there.
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Fighting in the war-torn Nuba Mountains in Sudan has led to an increase in the number of Sudanese refugees fleeing to South Sudan in the last month, a UN refugees agency spokesperson said Friday during a press briefing at Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, quoting a report from the agency's teams on the ground.Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The UN refugee agency and 18 partners are presenting the Regional Refugee Response Plan to assist more than 460,000 refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) who have fled to neighbouring countries, a spokesperson for the agency said Friday as a press briefing in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The UN refugee agency Friday said it was very concerned about the fate of hundreds of refugees who returned to Nigeria from Niger on 14 January during a joint operation organized by the Government of the north eastern Borno State in Nigeria and the authorities in Niger.
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Some 7,300 Nigerian refugees have arrived in western Chad in the past 10 days, fleeing attacks by Boko Haram insurgents on Baga town and surrounding villages in northeast Nigeria, according to the UN refugee agency.
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Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Prime Minister Brigi Rafini of Niger Tuesday presented the Council of Ministers here an emergency plan for relief assistance to thousands of Nigerian refugees and other displaced people, currently facing a severe food shortage, in the eastern region of Diffa.
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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Refugees from different parts of Africa face a very difficult situation in Tunisia, an official of the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights, Masoud Ramadani, said at news conference here Wednesday.Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The Nigerien government has launched an urgent appeal to the international community for support to thousands of Nigerian refugees fleeing the violence of Islamic sect Boko Haram. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Faced with multiple large-scale emergencies in Africa and the Middle East, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has warned donors at the agency’s annual pledging conference that the world’s humanitarian financing system was "close to bankruptcy".
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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Niger refugees in Algeria will be repatriated from next week to their country in several phases, the Algerian Senior minister, minister of Interior and Local authorities, Tayeb Belaïz, said on Thursday.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - After a four-day mission to Ethiopia, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Kyung-wha Kang has called for continued international attention to the plight of South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia.
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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has said that 37,000 Eritreans asylum seekers arrived in Europe, via Sudan and Ethiopia, this year, indicating that the figure is three times more than the number of arrivals the same time last year.
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - UNHCR has started relocating by boat some 15,000 South Sudanese refugees from the Matar way station in western Ethiopia with the movement of the first group of 125 refugees on Monday.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN refugee agency has said the number of asylum-seekers in Europe from Eritrea over the first 10 months of this year has risen three-fold, compared to the same period in 2013. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Around half a million refugees, mainly from Somalia and South Sudan, living in northern Kenya, will receive reduced rations from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) as a result of insufficient funding.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Following a spate of deadly violence at the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has voiced concern about the security situation in the camp, urging a return to calm for all the communities sheltered there.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Despite mounting insecurity in border areas between Cameroon and Nigeria, where thousands of Nigerian refugees have sought refuge in the past weeks after fleeing from insurgent attacks, the UN refugee agency on Friday said it was stepping up efforts to continue to expedite their transfer.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The European Union (EU) has increased funding to Ethiopia to enable it effectively deal with the influx of refugees from war-scarred South Sudan, a top-ranking official said Thursday.
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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) -The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday appealed for financial support to assist thousands of South Sudanese who have fled insecurity in their country and found safety in Sudan.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Amid an intensifying campaign of violence committed by insurgent groups in north-eastern Nigeria, the number of refugees fleeing the conflict into the West African country’s neighbouring states has steadily increased significantly, the UN refugee agency warned on Friday.Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundian government has said it is satisfied with the issuance of Tanzanian citizenship to some 162,000 Burundians who had taken refuge in Tanzania since the 1970s.
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Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Thousands of people fleeing from clashes between the Nigerian Army and insurgents of the Islamic sect Boko Haram have in recent weeks flocked to Niger's easternmost region of Diffa, the International Red Cross Society (IRCS) said in Niamey Friday.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, has said new data on irregular crossings of the Mediterranean in the third quarter of 2013 show an alarming increase in the numbers of people perishing while attempting to make the journey to Europe.
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New York, US (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres has called for a renewed commitment to preventing conflict and ending protracted displacement especially on the African continent.
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New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesay announced that it is stepping up efforts to relocate some 5,000 Nigerian refugees in Cameroon away from a border town amid ongoing cross-border attacks by insurgents.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partners on Tuesday issued an urgent joint call for US$34 million to aid the more than 75,000 people who have since last year fled the violence in northeast Nigeria by crossing into Chad, Cameroon and Niger.
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Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) has denounced the issuance of National Registration Cards (NRC) by the Zambian Ministry of Home Affairs to former Angolan refugees in Zambezi, western Zambia, warning that this is a recipe for electoral confrontations ahead of the parliamentary by-elections in Zambezi West constituency.Full text...

Douala, Cameroon (PANA) - The Cameroonian authorities are worried about the arrival of about 40,000 Nigerians who have fled their country because of the activities of the Islamist group, Boko Haram, between July and August, PANA learned on Monday from humanitarian sources.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Ministers in charge of refugee affairs in the Horn of Africa region have agreed to maintain a policy of open borders to Somali refugees until the conditions are ripe for their return to their country.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced on Tuesday that Ethiopia has surpassed Kenya in hosting the most refugees in Africa, sheltering 629,000 refugees as of the end of July.Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN Refugee agency, UNHCR, has appealed for US$113 million to enable it respond to need of hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese refugees who escaped the conflict in their country and took refuge in Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has successfully completed the voluntary repatriation to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) of almost 120,000 refugees from neighbouring Congo.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Mr. John Ging, Operations Director for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), says South Sudan is the most rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the world today, and appealed for desperately-needed funding for Ethiopia, which hosts 180,000 South Sudanese refugees, mostly women and children.
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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – A group of Mauritians have asked their government to facilitate the adoption of 100 Palestinian orphans from Gaza, aged less than 12 years, PANA learnt Wednesday from members of the "Free Palestine Mauritius", a social movement that is pro Gaza inhabitants, who are victims of the latest Israeli aggression.
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New York, US (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday called on donors to increase funding for programmes in neighbouring countries hosting refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR).Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - An international refugee rights body has accused the Sudanese government of forcing thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to leave camps and return home to renewed Janjaweed atrocities.
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New York, US (PANA) - With thousands of families being driven from their homes by the violence spreading through north-eastern Nigeria, UN refugee agence, UNHCR, and its partners are providing humanitarian aid to those who have escaped and crossed the border into Cameroon.
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